AMAZON RAINFOREST — The short film Vitória Régia, a 21-minute production imagining a successful 2025 coup in Brazil and the annexation of the Amazon rainforest by the United States, was shot in March 2025 in collaboration with Indigenous networks Coiab and Apib. The film stars Alice Braga as Carol, a reporter, and was directed by Denis Kamioka, known as Cisma.

The plot depicts coup plotters assassinating the president, closing the national congress, and transferring control of the Amazon rainforest to the U.S. After the takeover, communications are cut and Indigenous leaders disappear. The military government bars Brazilian reporters from entering the rainforest region without a visa and imposes a news blackout to prevent information about environmental damage leaking out.

The story portrays a "green and yellow dagger revolution" in which military forces purge ideological "deviants" and transfer control of the Amazon to Washington. The film features a replica of the Statue of Liberty carved out of the wilderness in the Amazon region. The title refers to the lily-shaped symbol used by Indigenous dissidents in the film.

Kamioka said the production overlapped with real-world political developments during filming. "It was frightening the extent to which reality and fiction became mixed up. We were constantly competing with reality," he said.

Braga described a similar experience on set. "It was crazy. We were making a fiction film but then the US ended up taking this political stance with Trump and the film became almost a documentary," she said.

Pedro Inoue, a graphic designer and activist and one of the film's creators, said Indigenous peoples were central to the project's vision. "They are the past, the present and the future. They are the ones who have the answers about dealing with the end of the world because they've been dealing with it for more than 500 years," Inoue said. The film is partly inspired by the climate disaster novel The Ministry of the Future.

Kamioka said the project was intended to reflect current conditions rather than a hypothetical future. "This isn't a film about a distant future. That's the scariest part. It's about something that's happening right now," he said.